I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!”
“If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in A Little Night Music - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?”
“If I could play any superhero, I'd probably want to play Wonder Woman. She's pretty awesome.”
“If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.”
“If I could predict the trends, they would already be there.”
“If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.”
Source: I like what I know: a visual autobiography
“If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.”
“If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.”
“If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds—even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.”
Source: Lost Horizon
“If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”
“If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.”
“If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.”
“If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“If I could reach from pole to pole
or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul
The mind's the standard of the Man.”
“If I could reach the stars
I'd give 'em all to you
Then you'd love me, love me
Like you used to do”
“If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.”
“If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.”
“If I could read it, I could play it.”
“If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.”
“If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.”
“If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and from what their phonographic labels pretended they were – since it's in ourselves that the silence exists. It was while the sounds were still mysterious that it would have been really interesting to render the mystery palpable and transferable.”
Source: L'Ève Future
“If I could reincarnate as another player, I might want to reincarnate as Thierry Henry at the top of his game.”
“If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!”
“If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.”
“If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.”
Source: The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
“If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.”
“If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art in its place. That way, art teachers would rule the world. And since art is the most supreme form of love, beautiful colors and imagery would weave bridges for peace wherever there are walls. Artists, who are naturally heart-driven, would decorate the world with their love, and in that love — poverty, hunger, lines of division, and wars would vanish from the earth forever. Children of the earth would then be free to play, imagine, create, build and grow without bloodshed, terror and fear.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.”
“If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.”
“If I could retrieve my words I would, grab them out of the sky and hide them where they can't be seen.”
Source: Queen of the Night
“If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.”
“If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!”
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.”
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.”
“If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day”
“If I could say education had a product, I would like to say it is abundance.
But if education had a product, it would be an empty box.
And if successful education had a product, it would be the match ignited which set that box on fire and set the mind upon which every essay on “knowledge” ever written in history was cast into the fire to burn.”
“If I could say it, I would not have to dance it.”
“If I could say something about Capricornia, and it came out in your previous report, there is no doubt that the end of the mining boom has led to an economic downturn in central Queensland, and that is why people in Capricornia, and elsewhere in central Queensland too, are so desperate for a government that will protect their jobs and create new opportunities for jobs in the future. And that is why [Malcolm] Turnbull government's message of jobs and growth and its six point economic plan is so important to them.”
“If I could say something to everyone on this planet, I'd tell them to follow their dreams.”
“If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.”
“If I could say with words what my dances express, I wouldn’t have a reason to dance.”
“If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel”
“If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.”
“If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.”
“If I could share something with the world, it would be happiness.
Cos there are wounded hearts that needs the touch of laughter.”
“If I could show you how my heart is flowing with gratitude and love, I'd send you pictures, I swear.”
“If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.”
“If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.”